Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-11-17
THE INFLUENCE OF WOMAN.

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fluence over the child land
her prayers and admonitions follow the
child through life. The son grows up
to mans estate better for the loving
restraints thrown around him in child
hood. The teachings of his mother
have become interviewer In his very
being. Never through life are these
lessons forgotten. However debased
and degraded a man may become, how
low the plain upon which he may
stand, the depths of sin and iniquity he
NAV have reached. there are times
when the love for his mother, and the
remembrance of her teachings gush to
his heart like CLEANS of sunshine. He
remembers the loving caresses and her
prayers, as the voice of Angels dying
away in the dim and misty past. And
just in proportion as he has needed his
mothers lessons has he been good or
bad. Oh! the power of a mothers love!
The saying of Jewish RABBI Was,
"God could not be everywhere and
therefore he made mothers" If there
is aught surprising human deed or
word or thought it is mothers love.
The Hon. Thomas II. Benton, who
was so long in public life and surround
ed by temptations, paid the following
tribute to his mother: "My mother
asked me never to use tobacco, and /
never have touched it from that day to
this. She asked me not to game and
have not; and / cannot tell who is win
ming or losing in games that are play
ed. She abmonished me, too, against
drink, and watever capacity for endur-
ance may have at presedt, and what
ever usefulness I may attain in life, I
attribute to her pious and correct
wishes. When / was seven years old
she asked me not to drink, and then /
made resolution of total abstinence,
at a time whenI was sole constituent
member of my own body, and that 1
adhered to it through all time owe to
my mother"
Many years ago boy came to the
was an invalid, but still able to earn
his own living. The mother was dead
but not forgotten. Before she died she
told this boy to never taste intoxicating
liquors and to fear God.
The very morning he started, the
father repeated to him that message;
and yet, he fell into bad company and
spent one Sunday in reckless dissipa-
ton. That night he did not sleep. He
thought of bis mothers words-her
dying words; the words of his invalid
father were recalled: AS he thought
and wept, the boy said: at is time for
me to stop, and will stop" The next
Sunday he was i'm good company, and
the fruit was unto life. A long life of
honorable usefulness followed, and that
boy is now one of the most hOnored
and loved citizens of this metropolitan
city.
But sometimes the words of mother
seems to be forgotten. All! how many
a mothers heart is wrung with anguish
at the downward course of her boy?
How many fireside is made desolate
by the mothers boy who persists in
evil doing? How many heart-sick
mother is asking, Where is my wan
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wandering and evil-doing boy would
but listen to that voice, saying to him
with such pathos. as alone the heart of
a mother can give, "Stop," and obey,
how many mothers heart would be
made glad; how many homes happy?
I am satisfied the advice and prayers
of my noble Christian mother given in
early childhood, had such restraining
power as to keep me from becoming
either drunkard or a gambler, for she
abmonished me time and time again of
both these evils; and kneeling at her
feet / made the most solemn promise
of my life, and for more than fifty years
these promises have been kept. 1t
seems to me no man could pass I'M
scathed through greater dangers and
temptations than the writer of this ar
C. B. Gotten.
A drunken man was swaying un-
steadily in Virginia City street, &C
cording to the Chronicle, when a dog
with tin pan tied to its tail ran be-
tween its legs. The collision was so
forcible that the man was upset, and
the dog ran on minns a piece of its tail. |
The man got up bewildered, rubbed
the bruised end of his spinal column,
picked up the dogs tail, and thus So
"This is (hic) unfortunate!
Never before knowed or suspected |
had SIGH thing as a tail till go an |
fall down an break it off. Might a |
made (hic) fortune 'zibitin' myself as
man with tail. There'd bin millions in
(hic) in it! Jis my luck. |
I get a good thing it's al |
ways gone before (hic) find it out"
The saloons have ruled the people |
long enough; now let the people rule
the saloons in the only possible way
by ruling them out of existe nee.